CHRONOVISOR

An academia-noir and armchair mystery in the lineage of Borges and Eco; the life of hyper-literate philosopher Béatrice Courte is interpolated with the (allegedly) true story of the “chronovisor,” a device built in Italy in the 1950s that can photograph the past. A documentary bricolage of books, cassettes, newspapers, magazines, and VHS tapes constitute the film’s center of gravity — around it orbits the fictional story of Béatrice, whose usually respectable research interests verge on the occult as the enigmatic “chronovisor” begins to occupy her every waking thought…